My desktop OS: Gentoo Linux (NewsForge)

[Posted March 22, 2006 by ris]

NewsForge hears from a Gentoo Linux fan. "Gentoo Linux is all about choices. Do I want VLC media player compiled with Win32 codecs and Xine or MPlayer with AAC support? Or do I want to scrap that and go with open source formats? Gentoo uses the powerful Portage package manager to install and remove programs. Much of Portage's power comes from USE flags that tell Portage what dependencies to compile a program with. It has a front end called Emerge which the guide recommends for installing programs. To install Xine with AAC support, you can add the use flag and program to /etc/portage/package.use or the command line (USE="aac" emerge xine)."